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incidental
noun
1 incidental
frequently plural An expense not budgeted or not specified:
— He requested reimbursement of $7 for incidental expenses.
synonyms: incidental expense, minor expense.
2 incidental
An item that is incidental.
adjective
1 incidental
sometimes followed by `to' Minor or casual or subordinate in significance or nature or occurring as a chance concomitant or consequence:
— Incidental expenses.
— The road will bring other incidental advantages.
— Extra duties incidental to the job.
— Labor problems incidental to a rapid expansion.
— Confusion incidental to a quick change.
synonym: incident.
Roget 177:
liable,
subject;
in danger
etc.
665;
open to,
exposed to,
obnoxious to;
answerable;
unexempt from†;
apt to;
dependent on;
incident to.
contingent,
incidental,
possible,
on the cards,
within range of,
at the mercy of.
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Roget 8:
circumstantial;
given,
conditional,
provisional;
critical;
modal;
contingent,
incidental;
adventitious
etc.
(extrinsic)
6;
limitative†.
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Roget 10:
irrelative†,
irrespective,
unrelated;
arbitrary;
independent,
unallied;
unconnected,
disconnected;
adrift,
isolated,
insular;
extraneous,
strange,
alien,
foreign,
outlandish,
exotic.
not comparable,
incommensurable,
heterogeneous;
unconformable
etc.
83.
irrelevant,
inapplicable;
not pertinent,
not to the,
purpose;
impertinent,
inapposite,
beside the mark,
a propos de bottes [Fr.];
aside from the purpose,
away from the purpose,
foreign to the purpose,
beside the purpose,
beside the question,
beside the transaction,
beside the point;
misplaced
etc.
(intrusive)
24;
traveling out of the record.
remote,
far-fetched,
out of the way,
forced,
neither here nor there,
quite another thing;
detached,
segregate;
disquiparant†.
multifarious;
discordant
etc.
24.
incidental,
parenthetical,
obiter dicta,
episodic.
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Roget 151:
happening
etc.
v.;
going on,
doing,
current;
in the wind,
in the air,
afloat;
on foot,
afoot,
on the tapis†;
at issue,
in question;
incidental.
eventful,
stirring,
bustling,
full of incident;
memorable,
momentous,
signal.
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2 incidental
Not of prime or central importance.
synonyms: accidental, nonessential.
Roget 6:
derived from without;
objective;
extrinsic,
extrinsical†;
extraneous
etc.
(foreign)
57;
modal,
adventitious;
ascititious†,
adscititious†;
incidental,
accidental,
nonessential;
contingent,
fortuitous.
implanted,
ingrafted†;
inculcated,
infused.
outward,
apparent
etc.
(external)
220.
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Roget 156:
casual,
fortuitous,
accidental,
adventitious,
causeless,
incidental,
contingent,
uncaused,
undetermined,
indeterminate;
random,
statistical;
possible
etc.
470;
unintentional
etc.
621.
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3 incidental
Moby thesaurus: accessory, acciaccatura, accident, accidental, accompanying, addendum, addition, additional, adjunct, ado, adrift, adscititious, adventitious, afloat, afoot, aleatory, ancillary, appendage, appoggiatura, appurtenance, appurtenant, arabesque, article, ascititious, aspect, auxiliary, beside the mark, beside the point, beside the question, by-the-way, cadence, cadenza, case, casual, causeless, chance, chancy, circumstantial, collateral, coloratura, conditional, contingency, contingent, count, current, datum, destinal, detail, dicey, division, doing, element, embellishment, eventuating, extra, extraneous, extrinsic, facet, fact, factor, fatal, fatidic, fioritura, flight, flourish, fluky, fortuitous, going on, grace, grace note, haphazard, happening, happenstance, iffy, immaterial, impertinent, in hand, in the wind, inadmissible, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, incidental note, inconsequent, inconsequential, indeterminate, inessential, insignificant, instance, irrelative, irrelevant, item, lesser, long mordent, matter, mere chance, minor, minor detail, minutia, minutiae, mordent, negligible, nihil ad rem, nonessential, not at issue, not-self, occasional, occurring, odd, off, off the subject, on, on foot, ongoing, ornament, other, out-of-the-way, paltry, parenthetical, part-time, particular, passage, passing, petty, point, pralltriller, prevailing, prevalent, provisional, random, regard, respect, resultant, risky, roulade, run, secondary, serendipitous, side, single mordent, spare, subordinate, subsidiary, superadded, superaddition, superfluous, supervenient, supplement, supplemental, supplementary, taking place, thing, trifling, trivial, turn, uncaused, under way, undetermined, unessential, unexpected, unforeseeable, unforeseen, unimportant, unlooked-for, unplanned, unpredictable ... show more.
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